Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that holds a lease; a tenant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person to whom a lease is granted; a tenant taking an estate by lease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
Eye dialect spelling oflet's see . - noun An
individual or acorporation who has theright ofuse ofsomething ofvalue ,gained through alease agreement with the realowner of theproperty . - noun The
entity to whom alease is given, or who takes anestate by lease. - noun Someone who is
allowed to use ahouse ,building ,land etc. for a period of time in return forpayment to theowner .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tenant who holds a lease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whereas the lessee is a professor at the said University, holding his appointment as such under the lessor, and it is desirable in view of his employment that he should be enabled to provide himself a place of residence at the said University,
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Whereas the lessee is a professor at the said University holding his appointment as such under the lessor, and it is desirable in view of his employment that he should be enabled to provide himself a place of residence at the said University:
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The lessee is The Quercus Trust of California, an investment firm specializing in green technology firms, including Electro Energy, the site's previous tenant.
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When you finally "pull it," a catchy new demolition termcoined by Larry Silverstein, the long-term lessee of the World Trade Center, andthe FDNY to mean "blow up some guy'smodern, almost fully-occupied 15 year-old hi-riseso that he can confess publicly to it later andstill collect $861 million in insurance from a dozen different companies to pay off his creditors and rebuild while receiving no income from it for years" the targeted building falls asymmetrically and leaves 12 stories onthe northside standing, which, by sheer coincidence in this case, is the side that wasn't hit by the falling debris you carefully aimed at it almostseven hours previously.
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"In addition to that the federal tax credit can be used by a lessee, which is sometimes overlooked.
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In the agreement detailing a rental or lease, the owner, or lessor, has the option of turning the lessee, or renter, out for various reasons stated in the agreement, and re-asserting his possession over the land, building or whatever that is being rented.
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Cllr Wiltshire said: 'We are sympathetic to the concerns of our leaseholders but the council does spell out the detail of the financial obligations imposed upon a lessee in the terms of each right-to-buy lease.'
Killed in a good cause Not a sheep 2009
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PS - Garrett, according to the website, the Stade Saputo was built on land conveyed by "Bail Emphyteotique," an "Emphyteutic lease" for 40 years - it is unclear what if anything was paid for the lease, a type that seems to require the lessee to improve the site, which then reverts, with improvement, to the lessor after the term expires (here, after 40 years.)
Leave the Beavers -- move the Timbers? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I'd probably have been outraged about this issue around ... lessee ... 13 years ago?
How To Address The $5 RE5 Vs. Mode Issue SVGL 2009
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In the agreement detailing a rental or lease, the owner, or lessor, has the option of turning the lessee, or renter, out for various reasons stated in the agreement, and re-asserting his possession over the land, building or whatever that is being rented.
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